Some landlords seem to forget that taking care of the property is still their responsibility.

One woman says she and her husband moved into a filthy rental nearly three years ago after being promised several issues would be fixed.

Since then, they’ve handled most repairs themselves and rarely needed anything from the landlord.

Then, out of nowhere, the landlord requested their first inspection and sent her mother to do it.

But rather than checking the home, she spent most of the visit criticizing their yard and warning that their lease could be at risk. Now the renter feels like they’re being blamed for maintenance the landlord ignored for years.

Keep reading for the full story.

Help!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Yesterday, we had our very first inspection in almost three years of living at our rental. It is a 3-bedroom, 2-bathroom house with a big back and front yard.

For some context, our landlord used a property management company to find us as tenants, but as soon as we got the keys, the company completely stopped managing. Because of that, everything goes through our private landlord.

When we toured the property before applying, we noticed a lot of things were broken and mentioned it. They said it would be fixed when we moved in.

The house looks better than it did when they moved in.

However, when we got the keys, the heat didn’t work properly, and the house was so filthy. It smelled like dirty dogs, there was tons of dog hair everywhere, and the toilets were completely brown and stained.

The house was so filthy it took three days of cleaning before we could actually move in. We were comped $300 off our rent for this.

Since then, my husband has made many repairs for free, some even costing us our own money and time. We’ve always paid our rent on time, but if we don’t send it early enough in the morning on the 1st of every month, she will start sending texts in the afternoon of the 1st asking for the rent.

In three years, the landlord has had to do very little at the home.

In the entire time we have lived there, the only things she has had to do are pay us back for a spring my husband replaced in the garage, buy us a new fridge, and pay one time for landscaping. Otherwise, we have taken care of the property ourselves.

Flash forward to the beginning of August, and out of nowhere, she wants to do an inspection. Fine, we tell her our time, and the inspection was yesterday.

The woman who owns the home had her mother do the inspection instead. She gets there and starts taking pictures of the front.

When the woman walks in, she immediately starts crossing boundaries.

Finally, she comes in, and when she does, one of the first things she says to my husband in Spanish is, “Oh my gosh, you guys are so young.” She then gestured to my oldest daughter, who is about to be 7, and asked, “Well, how old is she?”

I told her, and she literally gasped and said, “Oh my god, babies raising babies,” right in front of my kids and all of us.

Throughout the inspection, the only thing she did was walk through the house to take some pictures. She did not check the smoke alarms, carbon monoxide detectors, or appliances.

By this point, she was basically shaming them for the condition of the yard.

She literally spent 10 minutes in the home just to take a few pictures.

Then, when we went outside, she spent the whole time berating my husband for the landscaping. It’s summer, so the grass is dormant for the season and is brown.

She was getting upset, saying, “We’re gonna lose her daughter’s $600,000 to $700,000 investment.”

Now, they’re nervous and not sure what’s going to happen.

She also complained about the overgrown bushes and trees. Mind you, one tree is at least 50 feet tall, and the bushes are around 15 to 20 feet tall. Then there’s a butterfly bush, which I trimmed, and she complained about how ugly it is.

She then told us she “doesn’t know what will happen with our lease” if we don’t get the trees and bushes cleaned up and the butterfly bush completely taken out of the ground by this Thursday for someone to come by for photos.

I just feel at a loss. This “inspection” was a joke and just us being belittled for her daughter’s failures to upkeep the property. I’m aware that in WA state, we are not responsible to do any of those things, but I don’t know. Does anyone have any advice?

Wow! That whole thing does sound like a joke.

Let’s take a look at what the fine folks over at Reddit think this landlord is up to.

They should start with this.

These are all valid questions.

Yet another reader who suggests reading the lease.

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According to this comment, they’re getting ready to sell.

The landlord has a lot of nerve.

They’ve spent years taking care of things she should have handled, and now she wants to complain about the yard.

Before they do anything, they need to check their lease and make sure they’re actually responsible for all of this.

If they’re not, then the landlord needs to figure it out herself.